Dead
Bruce Nauman
1975
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph on Arches Roll wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 86.3 x 124.7 cm (34 x 49 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Benjamin B. Smith
Accession Number
1985.47.140
About the Artist
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman, born on December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, grew up in a family frequently uprooted by his father's career as a General Electric engineer. After studying mathematics, physics, and art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a BS in 1964, Nauman pursued an MFA at the University of California, Davis in 1966. There, he studied under William T. Wiley and Robert Arne...